Word: picket
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According to Conroy, 59 percent of Local 34 workers showed up for work, although he added that a larger percentage of Local 35 members had not crossed picket lines...
...picket lines—manned by workers ranging from secretaries to custodians to dietary workers—began on the day Yale’s dormitories opened to upperclass students...
...picket lines have had mixed results...
Conroy also said he did not think many students would be deterred from crossing picket lines to enter buildings, and that the pickets were not much of a deviation from Yale’s normal atmosphere...
...showed me the fun of a garden on a warm summer day and the airy feeling of a wide, sparsely-populated city boulevard. And a weekend rummaging through the basement and attic of my grandparents’ Kansas City house made me reconsider the possibilities that lurk behind picket fences...